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BrailleTouch App Will Allow Visually Impaired Users To Use Smartphones
A team from Georgia Tech, led by Post Doctorate Fellow Mario Romero (School of Interactive Computing) has designed BrailleTouch for touchscreen mobile devices. The prototype app allows visually impaired people to easily type and opens the door for everyone to text or type without looking at the screen. If you would like to find out more, you can read the white paper here. The free open-source app, called BrailleTouch, incorporates the Braille writing system used by the visually impaired. It has been conceived as a texting tool for any of the millions of smartphone phone users worldwide. Early studies with visually impaired participants proficient in Braille typing have demonstrated that…